I burn after sex

After having sexual intercourse with my boyfriend we both experience a burning sensation immediately after ejaculation. It is particularly painful whe...

08/05/2006

Question

Soon after having sexual intercourse with my male partner, we both experience a burning sensation. It seems to be provoked by his ejaculation.

Passing urine afterwards is also painful.

The problem does not occur when we have intercourse but without ejaculation.

At other tines, urinating is not painful. And neither of us has a discharge or itching.

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Answer

Your story is quite a puzzling one. A very few women are allergic to their partner's sex fluid and get a burning sensation soon after ejaculation. But that wouldn't explain why your partner is also getting this burning sensation.

Is either of you is using some sort of contraceptive chemical or tablet which might be causing the problem?

Anyway, it’s clear that that the next thing you should do is to make love with a condom and see if that makes any difference. If that abolishes the burning, then presumably the problem must be due to your man’s seminal fluid.

But I think that the pair of you do need to go together to a genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic to get this sorted out. Please have a chat with the doctor there, and she will do some tests to see if either of you have any infection that needs treating.

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